Year: 2002

KM for lawyers. Lucinda Schmidt has written an article for BRW on Law’s new tools. This looks at the use of intranets in law firms, as well as the impact of knowledge management more broadly. To quote: Knowledge management is not a new idea for law firms; they have used sophisticated precedents databases and libraries…

A Snopes TV show would be a big hit. The intro teaser is here; a sample bit debunking the famous 602P Internet Tax Bill is here. My TiVo’s waiting…

Great study in this month’s Fast Company about TiVo’s attempts to create a sustainable business model. What’s most valuable in the article is the dissection of TiVo’s efforts at shifting its business plan in response to changing market conditions. I’ve had TiVo for just over 18 months, and am definitely one of the “rabid fans”…

A couple people have written in about my directory browsing post earlier today. Some thoughts: Rogers Cadenhead reports that “The Python Community Server, the open source clone of the Radio Community Server at http://www.pycs.net, turns off directory browsing by default.” If you put index.txt in your “gems” folder, nothing will happen. This is because the…

Phil Windley: People are the Key in Technology. In an article in the Atlantic Monthly called Homeland Insecurity, Charles Mann quotes Bruce Schneier thusly: “The trick is to remember that technology can’t save you,” Schneier says. “We know this in our own lives. We realize that there’s no magic anti-burglary dust we can sprinkle on our…

Lawyer Marketing – now this is an interesting idea.  Axiom Legal is a company that acts as an agent for lawyers, referring them cases.  If the client engages the lawyer Axiom runs the billing and provides some basic support services, and retains a percentage of the billing.  Apparently, according to my source, Axiom has generated…

Chris Smith reports in: KM – google mentalityYou don’t even notice it happening. But one day your hooked. That single textbox with the silly name is an awesome primary source. It’s amazing how effective it is. When I’m looking for an coding answer I used to go to MSDN. But in the past year the…

It’s official. Search for Rick at Google… Sports writers Rick Telander or Rick Reilly? Nope. Texas Governor Rick Perry? Rick Lazio? Ricky Nelson? All pretenders. Of course, I’ve got a ways to go before I can claim #3 like Ernie can…

On breaks in college and law school, I worked at The Nature Company. During my lunch hour, I would almost always grab a Galen Rowell book – my favorite by far was The Yosemite. Yosemite has long been one of my favorite places on earth, and the book – Galen Rowell’s photos coupled with John Muir’s…

I think this should be an option built in to Radio, but it’s relatively easy for you to do on your own. Here’s the issue: Radio is a web content management system – when you add content to Radio, it automatically uploads that content to your website. For many users, their web site is hosted…